if you want to know how it always starts with a joke.
a seemingly harmless joke, but a pointed joke about race.
if you smile, laugh, chuckle, even the smallest micro expression can signal that you are a viable potential candidate. and from there, it gets more intense. they become your friend, start peppering in little tid bits about "history" and try showing you funny shane gillis bits, then some out of context clips from varying sources, politicians, comedians, business moguls, protestors, podcasters, etc etc. the "real news"
over time it alters your algorithm, now its an automated processes. the military is a lot of "hurry up and wait" and so when you arent shooting the shit with your "battle buddy" you are looking at your phone, sharing memes, clips, etc. doesnt take much for third party data brokers to tell your whole algo what type of content and people you are engaging with, and like a virus, it spreads some far right bullshit so that even your private moments are filled with propaganda.
now you have soldiers who in the midst of you being "broken down" during training, attempt to steal the reigns and build you up into something the military didnt entirely intend on you becoming. a foot soldier for the far right white supremacist movement.
and the hard part is that these guys GENUINELY believe that they are doing you a service, that they are actually making you into a worthwhile friend and comrade in arms. so theres a level of emotion that is above manipulation, and thats what makes you feel like you are a part of something bigger than yourself, and that you are WANTED by it. not based solely on what you can do for it, but for something you were simply born with. your fuckin' skin colour.
it makes absolute losers feel important, to know that they are superior because of something they did absolutely nothing to attain. they are just built from a "higher quality genetic material" and so, they are entitled to be masters of all others. and thats why its so easy to go after people already willing to molded into something "better"
its kind of like the demons in poltergeist, they want carolanne because she acts as a false light for lost spirits. they use her to guide those lost spirits to the abyss, rather than the true light of the afterlife.
these would be normie soldiers are the lost souls, following a false visage to what they think is salvation, but is actually an abyss of hatred. and that goes on well beyond the military. its all over the world, and in everyones pocket.